The members of Atlético Bucaramanga who will not be able to play for seven days are Jefferson Gómez and Juan Marcelín, who would be involved in the attack once morest judge Alexander Guzmán.
Thus, Marcelín and Gómez will miss the matches once morest Junior this Saturday, June 11, and once morest Millonario next Wednesday, June 15.
Witness revealed details
An eyewitness to the event that occurred last Wednesday night at the Alfonso López stadium told Vanguardia details of the attack once morest the line judge, Alexander Guzmán.
The man stated that at the end of the match, “three of the four referees left the court for the mixed zone and the center-back stayed on the pitch. Meanwhile, Bucaramanga and Nacional were already in their dressing rooms.”
According to the story, the three referees who came forward decided to go to the dressing room and suddenly “a Bucaramanga player came out of the dressing room in shorts, shirtless and in socks and insulted them and went back into his dressing room. At that moment the referee Guzmán answered him and told him to say it to his face and not hide.”
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Upon hearing the referee’s words “Jefferson Gómez came out of the dressing room and told them what had happened and Judge Guzmán told him that another player was insulting them. At that moment, the Bucaramanga player pushed him and everything was confusion. More players came out from Bucaramanga to stop Jefferson Gómez but he managed to get away and punched the referee in the face and threw him to the ground”.
“When the judge was lying on the floor, several Bucaramanga players bent down to attend to the referee and ask him how he was while Sherman Cárdenas and Dayro Moreno called for everyone to calm down and request medical attention for the linesman,” he said. witness.
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The witness added that “while the referee remained on the ground, Jefferson Gómez did not continue his aggression but instead left the place and did not appear once more in the stadium.”
Immediately, the presence of Red Cross personnel was generated, who provided first aid due to the amount of blood that flowed from the wound.
During the healing process, this man assured that “policemen from Sijín arrived and asked him to identify the aggressor. They showed him three names of players on a list and the judge who was attacked did not hesitate to point out Jefferson Gómez as the person responsible.”
With an open wound of more than 10 centimeters in the upper arch of the left eye, linesman Alexánder Guzmán was transferred to the International Hospital of Colombia.
Facing the case, Dimayor said that he opened an investigation and “if that is proven, it is an absolutely regrettable fact and that surely the Disciplinary Committee is going to take very drastic measures in this regard.”